Insect rambles

Six weeks into the new year, and things have finally calmed down enough to go for a wander around our new local area. Having moved to Malver...

Way back at Christmas 2013, I decided on a couple of wildlife challenges for the forthcoming year. Being a pan-species lister interested in...

Bees are getting a lot of press at the moment, much of it focused on the decline of the honeybee and the various reasons behind it.  But the...

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite...

Last weekend was a busy one.  Saturday was the first ever Shotover Conference , celebrating almost 200 years of biological recording at Shot...

The weekend before Easter was a bit of a change - for once, the main targets for sightseeing weren't some of the UK's 40,000 invert...

I've had a productive couple of weeks for wildlife-spotting - spring is properly here and the insects in particular are responding to t...